A Frankfurt sociologist argued industrialization is a misnomer for class struggle

Evidence

Maus explicitly defended Marx’s theory, which attempted to illuminate the process `which we have wrongly come to call industrialization’ (Horkheimer and his colleagues had in the meantime begun to commit this mistake as well); there was more class struggle today than ever. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1681

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that ‘industrialization’ as a term smuggles in a class-blind frame is a provocative methodological point — worth chasing what Maus’s larger argument was.
• XREF: connects to: Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2095; The Fascist corporate state aimed to neutralize class conflict generated by industrialization — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2472; Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39

Broader Connections

• Business-ideology sociology treated the factory as a convivial community and ignored management-employee conflict #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2095
• Postindustrial society narratives ideologically mask continuing class struggle. #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 39
• The Fascist corporate state aimed to neutralize class conflict generated by industrialization #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2472